Fred J. Carnage
American attorney
Fred Jonathan Carnage (April 16, 1894 – March 5, 1988) was an American attorney.
Early life
Fred Jonathan Carnage was born in Thomasville, Georgia, United States on April 16, 1894 to Caroline and Calvin Carnage. His father was a railway worker and his grandfather was enslaved. He received his primary and secondary education at the Allen Normal School in Thomasville. He attended Morgan State College in Baltimore, graduating in 1923, before studying law at Howard University in Washington D. C. He graduated with a Bachelor of Laws in 1926. He moved to Raleigh, North Carolina the following year and was hired as an agent by the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, eventually becoming an assistant manager. He married Mary E. Coleman on December 18, 1932 in Virginia. They had one daughter together.
Career
Legal career
In 1932 Carnage passed the North Carolina bar examination and established a law practice in the Love Drug Store building in Raleigh, thus becoming the second black lawyer in the city. Later that year he moved his offices to East Hargett Street, where they remained for the rest of his career.
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